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In being surprised that apparently 98% of UK women under 25 have no pubic hair at all?

849 replies

Longstocking2 · 04/01/2011 23:52

Is that true?

A friend who is a practice nurse says she presumes it's just a fashion. None of her women under 25 who come for smear tests have any pubic hair.. all shaved, shorn, waxed to nada.

Obviously that's fine but it seems a little universal to me. Aren't there any rebels out there?
Is it just for the boys they do it?

Does the image not come from porn originally?

{shock]
Confused
would love to be enlightened!
Clearly I'm over 25 Grin

OP posts:
A1980 · 05/01/2011 00:19

I'm 30 and I haven't had long hair for years. I keep a very small and short bit on the front but that's it.

I couldn't go back. Once when i did let it start growing back, I can't stand the itching. How I ever stood having hair there I do not know. Ewww!

giyadas · 05/01/2011 00:19

Yes it's a porn thing.
Mine is wild and free, just the hats off unwary travellers bobbing on top. I take the 'sleeping beauty' approach. Yes it's wild but if you're my true prince, you'll make your way safely through.

A1980 · 05/01/2011 00:21

It isn't a porn thing and never was for me.

For me it was comfort that did it. I cannot stand having hair there as I find it itches. I also feel much cleaner having very little hair there.

backwardpossom · 05/01/2011 00:23

It itches as it grows back in, no? Once it's there, it doesn't itch?

(Questions, not statements!)

Folicacid · 05/01/2011 00:25

As Baroquin says: PORN. And then slebs, glanou models as role models etc etc.

I'm in my thirties and I take off more now than I did when i was 18. This grew or rather didn't with the years. Salons started offering 'brazilian waxes' rather than the trim of sides. It is a total PITA though.

I did also go through a 'hollywood' phase for the same reason as pixie latte but am well over that as it just doesn't seem right to have none.

A1980 · 05/01/2011 00:25

Well maybe prickles is a more accurate statement than itches. Imagine having stubble on your bikini line...! I certainly find if I leave it a few days and it's growing back, it prickles and itches, especailliy in jeans or trousers.

I just don't like having hair there now at all. It's just more comfortable, for me anyway.

Folicacid · 05/01/2011 00:26

glanou? er.... glamour.

kickassangel · 05/01/2011 00:27

when i shave my legs i get stubble. i have sensitive skin which reacts to ALL the creams, and waxing gives me those little 'bumps'.

so how on earth do you do it without some unwelcome side effects? if i suffer that on my legs, there's no way that i'm touching my LG with anything (other than a brief trim)

GypsyMoth · 05/01/2011 00:27

How come she's seen so many? Didn't think women under 25 were called for smears?

Folicacid · 05/01/2011 00:28

I do think sex is better when I'm smooth underneath with landing strip only. I feel like I'm more sensitive.

scottishmummy · 05/01/2011 00:30

No of the women your friend has seen 98% dont have pubic hair (according to her).this isnt same as 98% ,

SnowyGonzalez · 05/01/2011 00:31

You know, I think it's weird. I was thinking about this yesterday whilst changing DD's nappy and I thought: "Why would a grown adult choose to look like this?" I really don't get it; I must be a true fogey. I wonder if it's connected to our insane love affair with the trappings of youth. Well I've been young: been there, done that, and am confident and fulfilled enough to be extremely glad to be the age I am. I do not need to pretend to be a child.

backwardpossom · 05/01/2011 00:33

I got called for a smear at 21, ILoveTIFFANY - I'm in Scotland though.

SlightlyJaded · 05/01/2011 00:37

So actually, so far based on responses, it seems that the under 25's are all hair free.

I am surprised. I thought it woud be quite high but i imagined more brazillians than Hollywood's tbh.

Agree with the poster who said that now in her thirties she takes more off than when she was eighteen. I am the same - just leave a small triangle on front.

But how many under 25's have been Vagazilled? That's what I want to know!

rodformyownback · 05/01/2011 00:37

I am over 25. My natural state is unacceptably bouffant so I keep it trimmed to about an inch. I also shave the old sideburns when doing my legs (not very often sadly)

I once did the whole lot with depilatory cream, it looked like a plucked chicken. BF was aghast. Revolting! (I was under 25 then, in fact it may have still been the previous century. I had not seen porn)

These days many people have a Brazilian but I sport a Caesarean - a half inch wide bald strip the length of my scar. Very stylish I like to think!

LotteryWinnersOnAcid · 05/01/2011 00:38

I'm 25. I just find pubes a nuisance and uncomfortable to have. Bad things happen with heavy periods and heavy pubes, I discovered this when I was a teenager, hence I have been pruning for ten years and can't imagine ever going back. It is all nice and neat down there. Makes me feel not quite right if it isn't. I'm 37 weeks preggo and I have become a dab hand at razoring blind in the bath. In fact, after this, I need never bother looking again whilst pruning! It's just so easy and second nature, I don't really question it, but wouldn't make a special effort for a smear test.

rodformyownback · 05/01/2011 00:39

What on earth is Vagazilled?

My youngest sister is under 25 and she has a massive ladygarden which is surprising as she is well groomed in other respects. Mind you she has an irrational phobia of cunnilingus so maybe she does it to keep her fella's face out...

LotteryWinnersOnAcid · 05/01/2011 00:39

Mind you at the moment I have a little triangle as opposed to the usual landing strip. I don't know why but landing strip seems too... naked for during pregnancy? Blush

ChippingIn · 05/01/2011 00:42

At times I choose to have it all waxed off (I would do it all the time if my 'waxer' didn't now live thousands of miles away or if I could find someone else I was comfortable with doing it).

It feels smooth, soft, clean and nice. It also makes sex even better as you can feel more - to say women do it because of 'porn' is insulting as is saying it is 'to pretend to be a child' - insulting to both me & my partner (s, past & present) who on the whole didn't care either way and certainly didn't ask me to do it to look like a porn star or to act as Paedo's themselves.

Try thinking about what you are saying before spouting any old shit that comes to mind.

... oh and for the record - I'm over 40.

Folicacid · 05/01/2011 00:47

Chipping In, I think that it has become fashionable and what has driven the fashion in the very beginning is porn. That's not saying that partners ask for their partners to shave it all off so it looks like porn etc. I certainly whipped it all off for some time and didn't think anything of it in terms of that, but it was just more convenient.

CamelToeAndWine · 05/01/2011 00:47
Folicacid · 05/01/2011 00:47

Rod, poor sister! i wonder if she will get over it and then regret all those wasted years? Wink

KalokiMallow · 05/01/2011 00:54

I'm over 25, but have no pubic hair (and haven't since I was about 21) It just feels nicer and cleaner. Plus I got pierced down there so it's much more hygienic to have no hair around the piercing.

OldLadyKnowsNothing · 05/01/2011 00:57

I am many, many years past 25, and was asked by my boyfriend as a teenager to shave, just to see what it looked like. (We're in the 70's here, porn was much more natural than now!)

I did.

Once.

I hated the growing back, yes, it was itchy and uncomfortable, so I haven't shaved since.

No, my normal pubes are not scratchy or itchy, but I learned from another thread the other day that my pubes are weird anyway, as they are mainly straight and very soft! Grin

A couple of friends of mine (35+, been depilating for ages) have recently suffered infected ingrown hairs in that region; seriously Not Nice.

KalokiMallow · 05/01/2011 00:57

ps. influenced by nothing more than wanting the piercing done and deciding that it was easier to remove all hair. Wasn't for fashion or anyone else (was in the middle of a 3 year no sex phase), it was just practical